Activities

2012

April 18, Dag presented the work on converting dependency grammar analyses to LFG representations at the research seminar in computational linguistics: slides
March 29, Dag presented the PROIEL corpus at a guest lecture in Stuttgart: slides
March 8, Hanne gave a talk on definiteness at DGfS in Frankfurt: slides
March 1, Dag gave a talk on backward control of adjuncts in Ancient Greek at the Cambridge Linguistic Society: slides
February 29, Hanne gave a talk on "The many faces of byti" at the leap day seminar at the Center for Advanced Study: slides
February 11, Tanya presented work on "The many ways to find the “right” and the “left”: on fictive motion models in the encoding of spatial relation" at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society: handout
At the Danish-Norwegian seminar in historical linguistics, Hanne presented joint work with Laura Janda on aspect and grammatical profiles in Old Church Slavic and modern Russian: slides (in Norwegian)

2011

Hanne's book on Old Russian possessive constructions is out: publisher web page
We are organizing a conference on "Exploring Ancient Languages through Corpora" June 14-17 next year: conference webpage
The proceedings from our workshop on IE syntax and pragmatics at the University of Georgia, 2009 are out!
At ICHL in Osaka, several PROIEL members presented their work: Dag's slides on object prodrop, Hanne's slides on animacy and differential object marking in OCS, Hanne's joint work with Roland Meyer on null subjects in OCS, Mari's slides on the development of Latin ille and ipse into definite articles and personal pronouns
July 16, Dag presented work on backward control in Ancient Greek at the 16th International Lexical-Functional Grammar conference in Hong Kong
June 8, Mari presented work on ille and ipse in the Peregrinatio Aetheriae at the International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Uppsala
May, 21, Corien and Dag presented a poster on the temporal interpretation of Greek participles at SALT 2011 at Rutgers.
April, 30, we presented the PROIEL corpus at the conference New Methods in Historical Corpora in Manchester: slides.
We are hiring! Look at the announcement here.
Our ISWOC friends had their kickoff workshop at Lysebu. PROIEL members were much in evidence: Angelika talked about overt indefiniteness marking in Armenian (slides), Eirik about V1 sentences, Hanne about definiteness marking on proper names (slides), Mari about ipse and ille in Late Latin (handout) and Dag about converting dependency analyses to phrase structures (slides).

2010

At the Ancient Greek and Semantic Theory conference in Nijmegen in December 2010, Hanne, Peter and Olga presented their work on visualizing prepositional source encoding in the NT Greek Gospels (slides here) and Dag talked about discourse functions of participles (slides here).
December 9, Dag presented work on Dynamic semantics without coindexation at CSMN's Language & Rationality Seminar: slides
November, 18-19 we coorganized a workshop on definiteness with Atle Grønn's RuN project: conference web page
October, 29-30, Hanne presented the PROIEL corpus at a Symposium in honour of St. Naum, University of Shumen, Bulgaria: slides
October 7, Hanne and Dag reported from their work on proper names with articles at "The Grammar of Proper Names - a typological perspective": slides
On September, 30, Olga and Hanne talked about "Mapping the spatial domain" at the 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference in Berlin: slides
On September, 4, Hanne gave a talk on OCS touch verbs at the 6th International Conference on Construction Grammar: slides
On September, 1, Thomas Krause from Humboldt University, Berlin presented the Annis infrastructure for multilayer corpus search: slides
On August, 11, PROIEL and ISWOC had a mini workshop on IS annotation. Dag presented some slides on specificity (in Norwegian): slides
On June, 3, Hanne and Olga presented work on semantic maps of prepositions at Kognitivt sommerseminar (Cognitive Summer Seminar) (in Norwegian): slides
At LREC in May, 2010, John Lee and Dag presented work on converting Perseus dependency structures into PROIEL graphs: paper
On March 1, Dag gave another version of Corien's and his paper on participles (less lambdas and more corpus data!): slides
On February, 24, Olga presented a paper on prepositions at the DGfS in Berlin: slides
On February, 17, visiting postdoc Corien Bary and Dag gave a talk on the temporal interpretation of participles in Ancient Greek at the seminar for theoretical linguistics in Oslo: slides
At the Danish-Norwegian seminar in historical linguistics, Angelika, Dag, Hanne and Mari presented papers (all in Norwegian) on definiteness and articles in Armenian and in Vulgar Latin, Greek participles and Slavic animacy.

2009

Admire this year's anaphoric child!
Dag, Marius, Hanne, Eirik Welo, Mari and Angelika wrote about "Computational and Linguistic Issues in Designing a Syntactically Annotated Parallel Corpus of Indo-European Language" in a special issue of Traitment Automatique des Langues on Natural Language Processing for Ancient Languages: article (external link)
On December, 3, Dag and Hanne spoke about practical corpus work and grammar formalisms (LFG and construction grammar) at the seminar in cognitive linguistics: slides (in Norwegian)

November, 13-14, we participated in a workshop on information structural annotation of historical corpora at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Slides from all participants are available here.
November, 3, Dag was invited by the Perseus project to give a talk on What computers can teach you about the New Testament.
During the International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Dag and Hanne presented the multilayered annotation in the PROIEL corpus as well as work on proper nouns with articles. During ICGL the first issue of the new series of Journal of Greek Linguistics appeared, with an article by Dag, Hanne, Marek and Eirik: "Breaking down and putting back together again: analysis and synthesis of New Testament Greek" (external link).
October, 12-15 Dag and Hanne gave a course on using the PROIEL corpus at El'-Manuscript-09 in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia. Slides: lecture 1 lecture 2 TIGERSearch practice session
August, 24-28 we organize a block seminar in Armenian given by Charles de Lamberterie: more information
PROIEL members presented several papers at ICHL in Nijmegen, August 9-14: Dag, Eirik and Hanne on the information structural annotation; Hanne on Old Church Slavic possessive constructions; Dag on Greek word order; Mari on habere + infinite in Latin.
On July, 14, Dag presented work on the Norwegian preposition med at the 14th LFG conference: slides article (link to CSLI publications)
On June, 18, Hanne presented work on statistical modeling of construction meaning at Kognitivt sommerseminar (Cognitive Summer Seminar) in Hamar: slides (in Norwegian)
On May, 27, Arndt Riester from the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart, gives a guest lecture on "Annotating Information Structure: Practical and Theoretical Aspects". The talk starts at 1415 in seminarrom 9, Sophus Bugges hus: abstract
May, 13-15, 2009 we organized a workshop on Indo-European syntax together with Jared Klein and his students. Handouts and presentations will be made available on the web site.
On April, 8, Hanne, Dag and Marek presented the Slavic part of the corpus at PALC in Łódź.
On April, 6, Dag and Marius presented work on converting PROIEL dependency graphs to LFG f-structures at the workshop for Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology.

2008

On December, 6, Marius, Hanne and Dag presented a framework for dependency graph alignments in the corpus at a workshop in Regensburg on Diachronic Syntax in Slavonic Languages. A paper originating in this talk was finally published in Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 74.
On November, 23, our department sponsored a corpus seminar for our annotators. People came from Sofia, Łodz, Munich, Bonn, Tromsø and Oslo!
At the Fachtagung der indogermanischen Gesellschaft in Salzburg, September 2008, Dag and Marius presented the PROIEL corpus and Dag presented work on predicative participles.
Dag is organising a workshop on Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology together with David Bamman (Perseus Project, Tufts) and Marco Passarotti (Catholic University of Milan) during the 15th International Conference on Latin Linguistics. Here is the call for papers.
On September, 2, Hanne received HM the King's Gold Medal for her dissertation!
On August, 21, Hanne and Dag presented the corpus at the start up seminar of IECASTP in Bergen: slides
On July, 16, Dag gave a paper on the grammaticalization of word order in old IE languages at New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 in Leuven: slides
On July, 4, Dag presented work on the temporal semantics of Greek participles at the 13th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference: slides paper (link to CSLI publications)
On June, 17, Hanne presented work on Old Church Slavonic and Greek definiteness and possession at Kognitivt sommerseminar (Cognitive Summer Seminar) in Tromsø: slides (in Norwegian).
On June, 1, Dag and Marius presented the corpus at LREC workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data: slides paper
On May, 29, we are organising a seminar on pragmatic categories in ancient languages, and their study through parallel corpora. Here is the program.

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